Obama Paints Image of McCain and Bush as One

hello debra; i'm at a juncture this election. as a hispanic i believe that obama would be kind and inclusive. as the mother of a gay son, i know obama policies would be more tolerant. problem is we are not electing a gay or immigration rights ambassador, we are electing the next commander in chief of the most powerful, military in the world. pretty serious stuff.

This Bush tie in is really getting old Obama.....your opponent is McCain, not Bush. It's not going to work, but your desperation is showing. Yes, none of us like war and yes, none of us want higher gas prices, but aren't most of us typing on our laptops, cell phones nearby, with HDTV on and a bottle of designer water in hand? Yeah, we Americans have it SO BAD. Anybody want to leave to go live in another country? They're banging down our doors to get in here, despite whatever anyone says about Bush (I personally haven't been hurt financially from a Bush presidency). He's not my favorite and should have been a one termer, but that isn't McCain's fault.
Man up Obama and just deal with McCain on the issues, wimp.

sonia trevino.....don't be an undecided Hillary supporter....come on over to McCain camp....they have more in common as Americans and loving our country and they are centrists (one a little right, one a little left). I think even Hillary secretly would agree McCain is our better choice.
HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN, AND IT'S NOT GOING TO CHANGE AFTER THE CONVENTION.

Senator Obama on the Born alive legislation:

"And I hate to say that people are lying, but here's a situation where folks are lying. I have said repeatedly that I would have been completely in, fully in support of the federal bill that everybody supported - which was to say --that you should provide assistance to any infant that was born - even if it was as a consequence of an induced abortion. That was not the bill that was presented at the state level. What that bill also was doing was trying to undermine Roe vs. Wade. By the way, we also had a bill, a law already in place in Illinois that insured life saving treatment was given to infants.

So for people to suggest that I and the Illinois medical society, so Illinois doctors were somehow in favor of withholding life saving support from an infant born alive is ridiculous. It defies commonsense and it defies imagination and for people to keep on pushing this is offensive and it's an example of the kind of politics that we have to get beyond. It's one thing for people to disagree with me about the issue of choice, it's another thing for people to out and out misrepresent my positions repeatedly, even after they know that they're wrong. And that's what's been happening."

If Obama can say that McCain and bush are the same, then half of voters should consider Obama, Bill Ayers, Tony Rezko and Rev. Wright with the same values. Those relationahsips have been longer than 8 years of McCain and Bush. And Senator Obama has yet to say these men were bad company.

when i vote for a president i vote for one that understands his job description.
The President of the United States, by Constitutional order has two primary jobs that address our national policy. His/her first Executive responsibility is, as Commander in Chief, to use all means to defend the Constitution; a Constitution that orders him/her to defeat the enemies that wish to harm our nation. The second primary Constitutional order for our President is to be the one and only spokesperson that speaks for the entire people’s representative Republic, to any foreign country, conveying our clear policy and resolve

some of you may wish this included must be young, cute, warm and cuddly.

mccain understands the job description very well (a little fast on the draw) which worries me, but he understands the duties of the job.

Why we want to pick a president who has experience for 20 years sat listening to his crazy preacher, Rev.Wright!

I guess now that Obambi calls the US president John McCain's president, all talk of there being no red or blue state American has now also been thrown under the bus for Obambi's presidential aspirations.

AS for Joe Biden at least he hasn't called for the partition of Georgia, yet..

"Why did Obama at first predict a failure in Iraq and when that did not happen try to legislate a failure."

sandhog,

Baghdad is still considered to be the most dangerous city in the world despite our continuing to occupy the country with over 150,000 troops at the cost of two billion dollars a week and more American casualties. Just because the corporate news media is not covering the story doesn't mean that the violence and bloodshed have ended.

Exactly what have we won? The brutal civil war continues with no end in sight. Our troops cannot go out on patrol without armored vehicles and heavy air support. The infrastructure is totally destroyed, no electricity or water to many sections of Baghdad, and the Iraqi government cannot agree on anything.

If this is victory, I think that we need to think twice before foolishly invading another sovereign country again.

"He's not Bush. He's not really cute. I don't recall him being funny, either."

Kitty,

he tries to be funny at times, but to me, he is just downright scary. Anyone who jokes about bombing another country, as in "bomb,bomb,bomb, Iran," is too far out to even seriously be considered as President of the United States. "I know how to win wars" McCain is much too agitated and volatile to be in the White House.

If I hear John McCain say “my friends” one more time or have him retell one of his old war stories again, I’m simply going to mute the television when his face appears on the screen.

I don’t think he revealed anything about himself in rehashing all his sound bytes, stump speeches, and saying “drill here, drill now.” That’s the last thing that is going to bring oil prices down.

The man is obviously living in the past and has no intention of addressing the economic problems facing our country or resolving the differences that we have with our neighbors in the rest of the world- at least in a peaceful way.

Undying support for Bush's Iraq War, full support for maintaining the disastrous tax cuts for the rich in the face of a trillion dollar price tag for the Iraq fiasco, complete dominance of his campaign by Karl Rove's Bushies, in bed like Bush with the Christian Right including Ralph Reed, he's no straight-talker , no maverick, -- please tell us how this wrinkled white haired guy McCain is any different from warmed-over Bush. Enough is enough!!!

sour grapes what can i say? get over it sweetie!
blame it on the rev, blame it on hillary, playing the victim, when does this end?
i'm still waiting for hope and change.
one guy shoots from the hip, the other one cannot articulate an intelligent thought without a teleprompter. this is sad. an undecided hillary supporter.

I can see somebody don't like Obama

Obama is going off the deep end now

Why did Obama at first predict a failure in Iraq and when that did not happen try to legislate a failure. Now when we can leave Iraq in honor Obama is claiming it is his IDEAS that brought all the progress in Iraq

Basically what Obama has done is criticize poeple for doing their jobs when Obama has never done his job

"Basically, what John McCain's done is he's hired the same old folks who brought you George W. Bush," Obama said

Well didn't he hire most of Clinton era personalities too???!!

The Bush painting is not working on me. Bush is kind of cute in a goofy sort of way. He's funny, too. I'm going to miss him. I didn't vote for Bush. I really can't stand him aside from the part where he makes me laugh. I am voting for McCain, though. He's not Bush. He's not really cute. I don't recall him being funny, either.

This strategy doesn't seem to be working. In a year when Democrats should be well ahead, they are unable to close the deal.
Obama seems like a nice person, but his inability to provide direct answers to Rick Warren's questions really hurt his chances. Maybe the party will have a boost after the VP announcement and convention.